Re: control-panel runaway

Michael Diesburg (diesburg@d0sgifm01.fnal.gov)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:13:21 -0500 (CDT)

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> The control-panel process gets stuck in a compute-bound loop when you
>
> o run control-panel via an ssh connection to a remote node,
> using the X11 forwarding mechanism,
> in the background
> o break the connection
> via the ~. escape sequence,
> or due to a network problem.
>
> I've seen this with versions as recent as 3.7-7 , part of Fermi RH 5.2.1
>
Actually this problem isn't anywhere near that hard to generate. I have
had this happen frequently when I just exited the root account after starting
up X. It happens frequently enough that my solution was to just get rid
of the control panel.

Mike

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